﻿9. HOLBROOKIA 179 



Limbs rather long, not very slender. Eleven to eighteen 

 femoral pores. 



The color above is grayish or brownish, often with 

 bluish, greenish or yellowish shading along the back and 

 pinkish suffusion on the sides. Along each side of the back 

 is a series of about eight to 1 rounded dark brown blotches 

 on the body. There are similar blotches on the base of the 

 tail, but those of the two sides soon unite to form undulate 

 brown cross-bands corresponding in position to the black 

 bars of the lower surface. On the posterior half of the 

 body are two definite, more or less crescentic, dark bands, 

 blackish in males, brownish in females. Anterior to these 

 are a number (one to six) of less definite dark lateral bars. 

 These anterior dark bars usually carry series of small bluish 

 white spots and often appear only as dark reticulations sur- 

 rounding small bluish white and pinkish gray spots. The 

 limbs usually show more or less indistinct dark cross-bars, 

 and a longitudinal dark line on the posterior surface of 

 the thigh. The lower surfaces are white, sometimes 

 tinged with gray. The throat is reticulated or suffused with 

 bluish slate. The lower surface of the tail shows about 

 six to nine black spots or cross-bars. Males have a large 

 bright blue patch along each side of the belly, surrounding 

 the broad, jet black ventral ends of the two posterior 

 lateral crescents. 



Length to anus 48 50 61 63 66 67 



Length of tail 59 60 71 73 87 87 



Snout to back of 



interparietal 9J^ 10 11J4 12 \2 l / 2 12 



Width of head 9 9]/ 2 1 1 11 12 12 



Fore limb 26 26 32 33 36 35 



Hind limb __ +3 44 51 54 60 62 



Base of fifth to end of 



fourth toe 19 19 20 22 24 24 



